Shelly Sterling says she wants to keep the Clippers

(NBC BAY AREA) The estranged wife of embattled Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling pledged Tuesday to go “as far as I can go” to fight what she characterized as the NBA’s sexist move to remove her as a co-owner of the team in response to her husband’s racist remarks.

“Would an owners wife say the same thing and would the owner be asked to leave the NBA Or would they just say, well, shes only the wife,” Rochelle Sterling said in an interview with “Today.”

Sterling said while derogatory remarks about African Americans her husband made in a recording released last month, as well as new controversial comments he made in a CNN interview that aired Monday, make her sick, she said she doesn’t think she should be targeted in the NBA’s push to force a sale of the team. She recalled attending a game recently where she said fans were giving her high fives and saying” Go girl, don’t give up.”